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Jobs on the Line; Peloton’s Doing Fine May 7, 2020 Great Stuff Wall Street’s Breaking Bad This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. — Arthur Dent, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Indeed, it is Thursday, dear reader. And you know what that means … weekly unemployment claims and a market rally. (More optimistically, it’s also Reader Feedback day! Read on…) The […]
Jobs Data Vapor Lock; Shopify Shocks; Gamers Game Amok May 6, 2020 Great Stuff The Market Gods Are Crazy Any Great Stuff readers home-schooling kids right now? It’s quite the experience, let me tell you. New math? Pshaw … I’ve done things with fractions and limits in the past week that would turn you white. Yes, Mr. Great Stuff, we get it. Math is hard. But what about the […]
30 Million Unemployed; Tesla Cries Freedom; Microsoft Goes Hard April 30, 2020 Great Stuff On the Turning Away… …from the pale and downtrodden … and the words that they say which we don’t understand. Wall Street almost — almost — became aware of the U.S. economy this morning. Continuing the epic U.S. employment saga, the Labor Department put another brick in the unemployment wall this morning. Some 3.8 million […]
U.S. Shrinkage, Box Office Trolls, Boeing Blows April 29, 2020 Great Stuff Country Jerome and the Fed And it’s a one, two, three … what are we buying for? Don’t ask me, I don’t care a wit; next stop is a bull market. And it’s a five, six, seven … open up the pearly gates. Well there ain’t no time to wonder why, whoopee! Stocks are gonna […]
3M’s Mask-on Magic; Pfizer Pfalls; Caterpillar Crawls April 28, 2020 Great Stuff It’s Different This Time It’s the mantra of the hopeful and the rally cry of bullish investors whenever the market takes a turn for the worse. As I scanned headlines in the financial media this morning, the simple truth of these words struck me. Take this morning’s original MarketWatch headline for example: “Stocks rise for […]





